Baucor offers premium-grade carbide, high-speed steel, stainless steel, and tool steel. By carefully choosing the appropriate material for each blade to ensure cutting precision, durability, and wear resistance.

Explanation of characteristics :

• Tensile strength :
  Tensile strength represents the resistance of a material under tension. Carbide has more tensile strength than other materials which makes it desirable for increased blade durability.

• Hardness :
  Hardness refers to the rigidity of a material, the blade must be more rigid than the material to be cut. Also, hardness indicates better wear resistance.
  
  
• Coatings:
  Coatings add an extra layer of rigidity to the surface of a blade which increases its wear resistance, reduces its friction, and helps extend the blade’s life.
  
  
• Manufacturability:
  Indicates how easily a material can be cut, machined, and ground to obtain the desired shape. Difficult manufacturability might result in higher production costs.
  
  
• Wear resistance:
  Refers to the ability of a material to withstand wear and tear during the cutting process. High wear resistance prolongs the lifespan of a blade.
  

Baucor uses a wide variety of high quality materials to manufacture its industrial blades, machine knives and surgical blades. No matter what industry you are in, we can craft the best knives and blades made from high quality materials specifically selected for your application. If you need advice on what material should be used for your new blades, we can help you select the right material to get the most out of your knives and blades. Whether you are in packaging, film or paper converting industry or a doctor who seeks to get better results with a newly designed scalpel, our engineers can help choose the best material for your applications. Our blades are made from material that include D2 tool steel, M2 high speed steel (HSS), Tungsten Carbide grades, 300 and 400 stainless steels, specialty CPM materials such as M4 and A11, and so on.

The material properties that need to be considered when choosing the right material for your application: 

• Carbon: Forms carbides, increases wear resistance, and responsible for the basic matrix hardness. 
  
  
• Tungsten and Molybdenum: Improve red hardness, retention of hardness and high temperature strength of the matrix, form special carbides of great hardness.
  
  
• Vanadium: Forms special carbides of supreme hardness, increase high temperature wear resistance, retention of hardness and high temperature strength of the matrix.
  
  
• Chromium: Promotes depth hardening, produces readily soluble carbides.
  
  
• Cobalt: Improves red hardness and retention of hardness of the matrix.
  
  
• Aluminum: Improves retention of hardness and red hardness.

Please contact us here today to get a more comprehensive look at your knife blade material requirements.

BAUCOR® has three main offices located in California - USA, London - United Kingdom, and Mannheim - Germany to reach and serve our customers globally. We design, engineer, and produce precision industrial blades, machine knives, custom tools manufactured to exact specifications. 

We also supply thousands of in-stock BAUCOR® industrial blades and machine knives from these locations.

Contact our experienced sales engineers in one of our offices conveniently located in California, UK, and Germany to discuss your needs.